Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: The Stellar Neighborhood



Greetings fantastic readers. Thanks for being here.

Thanks to Ina for filling in for me yesterday. The Harappa City Team was knocked out of the Winterfest Football tournament early so I didn’t have much skin in the big game. Maybe if I had, I’d have been more careful with the Oodo. The final turned out to not be much of a game and I got involved with some musical friends and we started a jam. Then someone brought out a bag of Oodo. I don’t remember much after that.

I’m fine today, however. So, lets continue our trip through the SID’s early explorations of the local stars. Last week we mentioned that the limitations of their early starships prevented them from extensive explorations. They went to several systems and found only one with any live more complex that single celled creatures, and that planet harbored silicone based life.

They found a lot of gas giants, a few frozen balls of ice and rock and some molten blobs.

They also explored several clouds of dispersed gas and a few nebula remnants. All in all the galactic neighbor hood is a pretty boring place. And that is a good thing, it turns out. Further explorations have shown us that most complex life evolves in “boring” galactic neighborhoods. The interesting places are most often too dangerous to support long term life. We now know that life takes time, lots of time. Areas where there are interesting galactic anomalies are usually filled with rogue objects, dangerous gasses and often, high levels of radiation. 

Tomorrow lets talk some about what interesting things we’ve found since the early days of space exploration.

Never mix red wine and Oodo.

Philip Normer
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